2024 Summer Olympics

Games of the XXXIII Olympiad

Emblem of the 2024 Summer Olympics
Location	Paris, France
Motto	Games Wide Open (French: Ouvrons Grand les Jeux)[1][2]
Nations	204 + AIN, EOR
Athletes	10,714
Events	329 in 32 sports (48 disciplines)
Opening	26 July 2024
Closing	11 August 2024
Opened by	President Emmanuel Macron
Cauldron	Teddy Riner Marie-José Pérec
Venue	Jardins du Trocadéro and the Seine (opening ceremony) Stade de France (closing ceremony)[3]
Summer ← Tokyo 2020 Los Angeles 2028 → Winter ← Beijing 2022 Milano Cortina 2026 → 2024 Summer Paralympics

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The 2024 Summer Olympics,^[a] officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad^[b] and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event that occurred from 26 July to 11 August 2024 in France, with the opening ceremony having taken place on 26 July. Paris was the host city, with events (mainly football) held in 16 additional cities spread across metropolitan France, including the sailing centre in the second-largest city of France, Marseille on the Mediterranean Sea, as well as one subsite for surfing in Tahiti, French Polynesia.^[4]

Paris was awarded the Games at the 131st IOC Session in Lima, Peru, on 13 September 2017. After multiple withdrawals that left only Paris and Los Angeles in contention, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved a process to concurrently award the 2024 and 2028 Summer Olympics to the two remaining candidate cities; both of the bids were praised for high technical plans and innovative ways to use a record-breaking number of existing and temporary facilities. Having previously hosted in 1900 and 1924, Paris became the second city ever to host the Summer Olympics three times (after London, which hosted the games in 1908, 1948, and 2012).^[5][6] Paris 2024 marked the centenary of Paris 1924 and Chamonix 1924 (the first Winter Olympics), as well as the sixth Olympic Games hosted by France (three Summer Olympics and three Winter Olympics) and the first with this distinction since the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville. The Summer Games returned to the traditional four-year Olympiad cycle, after the 2020 edition was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Paris 2024 featured the debut of breaking as an Olympic sport,^[7] and was the final Olympic Games held during the IOC presidency of Thomas Bach.^[8] The 2024 Games were expected to cost €9 billion.^[9][10][11] The opening ceremony was held outside of a stadium for the first time in modern Olympic history, as athletes were paraded by boat along the Seine. Most of the ceremony took place under the rain.

The United States topped the medal table with 40 gold medals and 126 medals in total.^[12] Tied in terms of gold medals, China finished second with 40 and 91 respectively. Japan finished third with 20 gold medals and sixth in the overall medal count. Australia finished fourth with 18 gold medals and fifth in the overall medal count. The host nation, France, finished fifth with 16 gold and 64 total medals. Dominica, Saint Lucia, Cape Verde and Albania won their first-ever Olympic medals, the former two both being gold, with Botswana and Guatemala also winning their first-ever gold medals. The Refugee Olympic Team also won their first-ever medal, a bronze in boxing. At the conclusion of the games, despite some controversies throughout relating to politics, logistics and conditions in the Olympic Village, the Games were considered a success by the press and observers.^[c]

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